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Ex-Eagle Jaybo Shaw joins football staff

Former Georgia Southern quarterback Jaybo Shaw will return to the program as a graduate assistant coach.

Shaw was a key transfer for coach Jeff Monken, who brought the option offense back to GSU in 2010. Shaw, an option quarterback who started his collegiate career at Georgia Tech, led the Eagles to a 10-5 record and a semifinal appearance in the FCS playoffs in 2010.

A year later under Shaw’s leadership, GSU won the Southern Conference title and again advanced to the semifinals in the playoffs before finishing with an 11-3 mark.

In two years at Southern, Shaw passed for 2,709 yards and 15 touchdowns and ran for 934 yards and 30 touchdowns.

Mandatory tryouts for the Islands High School Lady Sharks Volleyball team will run from Aug. 1-3 with two sessions a day. Morning sessions are from 9 a.m. to noon with the afternoon sessions from 1-4 p.m.

All SCCPSS athletic eligibility forms must be completed and turned into the Islands High School athletic office prior to tryouts. Female students in grades 9-12 may try out and should come prepared with proper volleyball attire.

For more information regarding tryouts, contact head coach Kelley Jeffries at kelley.jeffries@sccpss.com.

Georgia Southern youth football camp cancelled

Georgia Southern’s Little Eagles Football Camp, originally scheduled for Saturday at Daffin Park, has been cancelled.

CARSON CITY, Nev. — O.J. Simpson went before a parole board Thursday and pleaded for leniency on his armed robbery and kidnapping sentence as he expressed regret for his actions and described being an upstanding inmate who earns pennies an hour keeping gym equipment sanitized and umpiring and coaching games in the prison yard.

Simpson also said he has become a counselor of sorts to fellow inmates of similar crimes and noted that he has made amends with his victims in a botched heist of memorabilia in a hotel room in Las Vegas in 2007.

“I just wish I never went to that room,” Simpson, 66, said during a 15-minute appearance.

Parole officials did not immediately rule on his request, which Simpson made remotely from a video conference room the Lovelock Correction Center. But their decision will have little impact on his overall sentence because he is only eligible for parole on five sentences ordered to run concurrently — two counts each of kidnapping and robbery, and one count of burglary with a deadly weapon.

As a result, even if the Nevada Parole Board ruled in his favor, he would then begin serving sentences attached to other charges and spend at least another four years in prison.

The world’s fastest man stopped short of condemning fellow Jamaican sprinters Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson or American rival Tyson Gay, whose failed doping tests have left the sport in turmoil ahead of worlds.

Bolt will run the 100 meters today and 4x100 relay Saturday at the meet in Olympic Stadium, which marks the one-year anniversary of the opening ceremony.